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Luxand Technologies Featured on New Universal Pictures "Knocked Up" Website
Luxand facial feature recognition and automatic face morphing technologies has been licensed by The Picture Production Company (The PPC) on behalf of Universal Pictures to create an interactive promotional website for the comedy movie "Knocked Up".
The PPC, a leading film marketing company in the UK, employed Luxand face recognition and morphing technologies to create a promotional website for the comedy "Knocked Up" for Universal Pictures.
Luxand are thrilled to be offering The PPC and Universal Pictures the newest facial recognition and morphing solutions to create a promo project for the movie. The partnership between the two companies is a phenomenal opportunity for Luxand to demonstrate the results of adopting its entertainment technologies worldwide.
The ground-breaking facial recognition and automatic face morphing technologies were developed after analyzing thousands of faces. The resulting animations and morphs are nothing short of outstanding in quality and accuracy. The technologies are delivered in a single Software Development Kit SDK, which is now available for anyone to license.
Luxand technologies provide endless opportunities to online entertainment services and software developers making imaging and video applications. The technologies can be used to create smooth animations and video content for content-rich websites. Recent products developed by Luxand feature the same technologies present in the SDK, and include FaceMorpher, a face morphing software, and Chord Pickout, a powerful software tool for music recognition.
Online entertainment industry is booming with the expansion and widespread presence of high-speed Internet. Luxand technologies allow online businesses get ahead of competition by offering their visitors a new and unique set of gimmicks. Online visitors to entertainment portals and chat rooms can easily create 'talking head' avatars by simply uploading a picture of their face. Having a library of human faces, the entertainment website can easily offer services unseen before, such as morphing the two people's faces to reconstruct a picture of their child or presenting a smooth animation showing one face transforming into another.
Feel free to explore Luxand.com or contact Alex Konoplev, the company's CEO at ak@luxand.com to find out more about facial recognition and morphing software or inquire about licensing options. To see the "Knocked Up" promotional website where our technologies have been used, please visit www.knockedupbabycreator.com.
About Luxand, Inc.
Luxand, Inc. is a private hi-tech company formed in 2005. Luxand research activities began with Artificial Intelligence and biometric identification technologies, allowing the company to develop a complete set of tools and libraries to perform fully automatic recognition of human faces and facial features. Today, the company provides a broad range of facial feature recognition solutions to online entertainment industry. Luxand technologies are used at online entertainment portals, chat rooms and movie Web sites around the globe. To learn more about the company, visit www.luxand.com.
About Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures is a division of Universal Studios. Universal Studios is part of NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Formed in May 2004 through the combining of NBC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment, NBC Universal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, and world-renowned theme parks. NBC Universal is 80%-owned by General Electric, with 20% owned by Vivendi Universal.
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NOTE TO EDITORS: For additional information on Luxand, Inc. and its technologies contact Alex Konoplev at ak@luxand.com.
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